Briefs

ROYAL PALM BEACH -- A 25-year-old man who was shot in Colombia 12 years ago has died, and authorities are now looking to South America to solve the crime.

Daniel Restrepo died Nov. 30 at his Royal Palm Beach home, authorities said. He was shot in the head when he was 13 while driving in a car with his father in Medellin, Colombia, where the family lived at the time.

Restrepo never fully recovered, and often suffered seizures until his death. He was found dead in his bed, authorities said.

The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner has labeled the death a homicide, due to a seizure induced by the gunshot wound's effects.

"It's really strange, the death at least a dozen years later. Throw in the fact it's out of the country, it's really unique," said Detective Steve Ultsh of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities hope to provide the information to officials in Medellin for their potential murder case, Ultsh said. It was not immediately clear if Colombian authorities had suspects or if anyone was ever arrested in the shooting.

Restrepo's father, Gonzalo, declined to talk about the shooting, but blamed his son's death on a change in his seizure medication, not the wound.

Driver arrested in crash that killed Fla. soldier

CAPE CORAL -- A woman was arrested in New Jersey in connection with a car crash that killed a soldier home on furlough, authorities said Thursday.

Ashley Brooke East, 25, of Cape Coral, was charged with seven felony and misdemeanor counts, including leaving the scene of an accident involving death, Florida Highway Patrol Capt. Jim Wells said. She was arrested Wednesday after getting off a bus in Newark, N.J., the News-Press reported.

Staff Sgt. Danny Beougher, 23, who had been deployed to Afghanistan once and Iraq twice, was on leave to visit family in Cape Coral on Dec. 8 when authorities say East slammed her Ford pickup into his vehicle. Beougher, a member of 82nd Airborne Division, was killed. His wife, Lauren, was critically injured.

East was being held in the Essex County jail in New Jersey and was waiting to be brought back to Lee County. It wasn't known if she had an attorney.